Primary English Writing Moderation Pack

This pack is available for £10 on our website Honeyguide SLS.

A full guidance pack about how to run a primary writing moderation staff meeting, including the steps that an English subject leader or a curriculum leader could take to successfully plan the meeting. This will help you to organise your thoughts, including how to communicate exactly what staff need to bring and how to organise the paperwork you’ll need so there’s no last minute rushing required!

The guidance and resources are built on the KS1 and KS2 teacher assessment framework for pupils in year 2 and 6 respectively, allowing staff to work through each writing moderation checklist and moderate judgements for the teacher assessment data they’ll need to submit.

For teachers in other year groups, there are moderation statements built from the programme of study in the English national curriculum so staff can moderate their assessment judgements but also look for gaps in learning within each key stage in order to support their lesson planning.

This pack is suitable for English subject leaders, curriculum leaders or those with responsibility for assessment or the quality of education will benefit from this pack to give them head space when planning out vital moderation meetings across the year. Senior leaders and headteachers will also find it useful to support new English subject leaders in running their first moderation meeting.

Key questions answered:

• What is moderation?
• What is a moderation meeting?
• How is the local authority involved in writing moderation?
• Why is moderation important?
• What role do subject or curriculum leaders play in moderation?
• When is the best time to do writing moderation?
• How does moderation work for different year groups in a primary setting?
• What do I need to do when planning a moderation meeting?
• What should I do during the moderation meeting?

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